Combination-ticket



(No Model.)

M. RALPH. COMBINATION TICKET.

.Nq. 487,540. Patented Dec. 6, 189 2.

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MARTIN RALPH, 0E QUEENS, NEW YORK.

COMBINATION-TICKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 487,540, dated December 6, 1892.

Application filed August 1, 1892. fierial No. 441,837- (No model.)

tickets or tags such as are usually made of paper or card-board and may be made of these or any desired material or combination of materials and are used for price tickets or tags, ornamental and embossed tickets, railway coupon-tickets, or for any purpose whatever.

The object of my invention is to produce a simple and cheap ticket which may be Very conveniently used and which may be cheaply and rapidly printed or marked and to avoid the loss of time necessary to cut apart when printed together.

To this end my invention consists in a combination-ticket, the construction of which will be hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a strip of pin-tickets embodying my invention and in position upon amarking-board. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same. Fig. 3 is an enlarged transverse section of a strip of pintickets. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a strip of string tickets or tags constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a series of railway coupon-tickets also showing my improvement. Fig. 6 shows a series of connected price-tickets, gummed or not gummed, as may be desired; and Fig. 7 is a broken perspective view of another modified form of ticket in which the central web is narrower than the ticketstrips.

The ticket embodying my invention com prises a central continuous web of any width desired of some material which is sufficiently strong to hold the tickets together, but which may be torn asunder easily when necessary.

are exactly similar and are pasted or otherwise secured to a central continuous web 12.

The web or strip 12 is of the same width asthe tickets, and where the tickets are roundcornered, as shown in the figures referred to, the web is shaped to correspond to-the shape of the ticket, although the web may be made narrower than the ticket, as shown in Fig. 7. Here the faces 1O and 11 of the ticket, which may be of any shape desired, are fastened to a central narrow web 12, whichmay be easily torn when necessary. The several tickets are separated on opposite sides of the web, as shown at 11 and the web thus holds a series of tickets together, so that when one ticket is to be separated from the strip it is simply necessary to tear off the web at a point opposite the inner edge of the ticket where it is joined to the next ticket by the central web. These pin-tickets are provided with pins 13 of the commonform, although any kind of pin may be used, and the pins shown have parallel prongs 14, which are adapted to be pushed into any material to which the ticket is to be fastened.

The tickets, it will be understood, may be provided with any desired printed matter and be cut or punched in any variety of manner. These tickets usually have prices or other matter marked on them by hand, and to facilitate this operation a board 16 is employed, which has grooves 15, adapted to receive the prongs 14 of the ticket=pins, and this will enable the tickets to lie upon the board, so that they may easily be marked. It will be seen that a single groove wide enough to receive both prongs of the pins may be used, if desired.

In Fig. 4 I have shown the ordinarystringtickets, which are provided with strings 17, but are separated, as shown at 11, in the manner already described, the opposite sides 10 and 11 of the tickets being secured to a continuous web 12, as in the case of the pintickets.

Fig. 5 illustrates a series of connected coupons or railway-tickets, these being of the usual shape, and they are also constructed as described above, having their opposite faces 10 and 11 secured to acontinuous web.

Fig. 6 illustrates the common form of priceticket constructed in accordance with my invention, each ticket having its opposite faces and 11 pasted to a continuous web 12, and these tickets are preferably provided with beveled corners 18.

The examples given serve to illustrate that an endless variety of tickets may be constructed in accordance with my invention, and it will be understood, also, that the tickets may be embossed or ornamented, if de sired, like the tickets given as prizes in Sunday-schools and the like, or any desired size of card may be joined in the same manner.

The several tickets may be printed alike on both sides or unlike, as desired, and while the tickets may be separately printed and then pasted to the web in any manner desired I prefer the plan of preparing the stock by cutting the opposite side of the sheet simultaneously by passing both through the same pair of cutters and then attaching the face and back of the sheet of card-board thus prepared by slitting to the desired width to the central web and then printing and cutting, punching, or embossing afterward, as may be found most convenient. In this way 1. The combination, with a series of tickets, of a continuous strip extending through all of the tickets between their front and rear faces, secured thereto and sever-able at the meeting edges of the said tickets, substantially as set forth.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a ticket-strip consisting in a series of tickets separated at their meeting edges and each formed of two sections, and a continuous strip extending through the series of tickets between their two sections and to which the adjacent faces of said ticket-sections are secured, the strip being severable at the meetiug edges of the tickets to provide for their ready detachment, substantially as set forth.

MARTIN RALPH. Witnesses:

WILLIAM RALPH, CHS. FRIEDERICH. 

